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 ¬times as if Mozart, and Haydn, and Paesiello having charmed the sentinels of another world, had come back again from the dead. ¬I could have wished their grand theatre had been less extensive, but as it was a mixed amusement of spectacle, conversation, and music, there was the advantage of meeting every body, without the probable disappoint- ment of missing the very people zee might the most wish to see. — Let this theatre therefore stand without rival or critic, or Lord Chamber- lains, to disturb it ; but let no apology be offered for the absurd magnitude of their play- houses, which I afterwards visited. ¬The first I went to was quite as large as our Covent Garden or Drury Lane, a very great defect. — I sat in that part of the house the most resembling our pit or front boxes, though the construction seemed to be different, and being placed as it were in the centre of vision, and -looking ¬